From Below

29 year old Selina Uttankar begins her journey from the small fishing village of Manori at 04.45, early enough to get to the main fish market to sell her goods. Travelling by ferry, autorickshaw, train, bus and on foot through the city's streets and beach front, she makes the 12-hour return journey through Elphinstone and Bandra to sell seafood three times each week.

Mohammed Muslim, 70, begins his 14 hour day in Colaba, in South Mumbai and delivers to Cuffe Parade, Post Office, Badhwar Park and Colaba Market. His packages range from post and paper to plastic and bread. A cyclist in what is becoming more and more a landscape of cars, Muslim navigates the busy roads, interchanges and pedestrian blocked neighbourhoods on bike and by foot covering over 25 km every day.

Lajja Shah, the 27 year old fashion stylist navigates the streets of Mumbai managing several key meetings during the day, and making extensive use of her mobile phone. Travelling over 36 km through the private toll road of Aarey Colony, to Marol, Andheri, Mahalaxmi, Bandra and Khar by autorickshaw, train, local taxi, on foot and by private car, Lajja ends her day at 22.00 at a major fashion show in Kalina.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference-holding entity, holding conferences on themes related to three areas of technology, entertainment, and design. It is owned by The Sapling Foundation, which aims to disseminate ideas and expert knowledge.

Palestinian rap group DAM, Da Arab MC’s, have received over three hundred thousand hits on Youtube. Part of this video was shot during an actual riot. You can learn more about them at http://www.dampalestine.com/main.html .

Produced by Sut Jhally's Media Education Foundation (www.mediaed.org), Naomi Klein (Author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine) talks briefly about the relationship between branding, globalization, and the alter-globalization movements that attempt to expose the stories behind the logos of everyday brands.

Network (1976) is a film about the corporatization of the media. The story follows the members of a major network as it is bought out by a large conglomerate and is forced to sensationalize its news department in order to draw ratings. The movie itself is prophetic because it very nearly predicts the rise of reality television and a state of things where former notions of "authenticity" or "objectivity" in news reporting are irrelevant, taken over by editorialization.

Felipe Coronel, aka Immortal Technique, is an Afro-Peruvian rapper based in Harlem. He also considers himself an activist, and claims that he looks “at things much more in perspective as to how they relate to history”. As a descendant of indigenous Peruvians, one of his more common themes is injustice in South America. He sees globalization as a negative force, one that tends to weaken the power of the economically disadvantaged. In fact, his views are quite socialistic.